Soap-dish.



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SOAP DISH. APPLICATION IILED NOV. 1, 1909.

970,485. Patented p .20,1910.

JOHN S. FREY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

SOAP-DISH.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed November 1, 1909.

Patented Sept. 20, 1910. Serial No. 525,684.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN S. FREY, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Brooklyn, in the city of New York and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Soap-Dishes, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates especially to metallic soap holders or soap dishes and consists in a novel construction of the body or receptacle of the article, as hereinafter described and claimed.

The objects of the invention are to provide for removing the soap from the dish by a sliding movement and thus to obviate lifting the soap, which, when the soap and hand or either of them is wet, is sometimes inconvenient and difficult.

Other objects will be set forth in the general description which follows.

A sheet of drawings accompanies this spec ification as part thereof.

Figures 1 to 4 inclusive are perspective views of four species of the improved soap dish.

Like reference characters refer to like parts in all the figures.

In each of its forms the soap receptacle, (.0, of the improved article of manufacture, includes wire members of three patterns, viz: larger and smaller L-shaped members, 1 and 2, both ends of the latter being shortened, and a rim member, 3 or 4 or 5, in the form of a parallelogram with rounded outer corners.

A suflicient number of the larger L-shaped members, 1, are arranged side by side to form the bottom and back of the receptacle, with their longer ends attached by smooth joints to the front bar of said rim member, 3, 4 or 5, perpendicular thereto, and extending downward and rearward therefrom, and their shorter ends attached to the bottom of a back bar, 3', 4; or 5, parallel with said front bar. It will be understood that what are termed the front bars are at the left in Fig. 1, and at the left and right ends of the article in Fig. 2. The front ends of said larger L-shaped members 1, attached as above described, are substantially flush with said front bar in each species.

The smaller L-shaped members 2, attached at both ends to the bottoms of the superadjacent side bars of the rim members, close to a suilicient extent the sides of the receptacles a.

Each of the rim members, 33 and 44, of the first and second species, forms the rim also of a sponge holder, 6, and said back bars, 3 and 4', are cross bars having the customary ball couplings, 6, at their ends. The front and back bars of the rim members 5 of the third and fourth species are symmetrical. The other members of said sponge holder b, Figs. 1 and 2, are U- shaped wire members, 7, attached to said rims 3 and 1, parallel with said cross bars 3 and 4 by ball couplings, 8.

In Fig. l the improved soap receptacle, a, is formed at one side of such a sponge holder Z), and in Fig. 2 such soap receptacles a are formed at both sides of such a sponge holder.

Each soap and sponge holder, Figs. 1 and 2, has a pair of hook-forming arms, 0, attached to one side of the rim 3 or 4, as means for supporting the article within a bath tub.

In Fig. 3 the rim 5 of the improved soap receptacle a is rigidly attached by a ball coupling, 9, to the front end of a wall bracket, d; and in Fig. 4 the improved soap receptacle a is supported upon a wash-stand or the like) by legs, 6. wing to said construction of each of the soap receptacles a, a cake of soap resting on its bottom may be removed from the dish by a sliding movement. The soap may consequently be readily slipped out of the improved dish even if it or the hands he wet, and as readily replaced.

Other forms of supporting means may obviously be substituted for said arms 0, bracket d, and legs 6, and other like modifications will suggest themselves to those skilled in the art.

Having thus described said improvement, I claim as my invention and desire to patent under this specification:

1. A wire soap dish having its bottom formed by substantially L-shaped wire members, the bottom-forming portions of which are inclined from back to front and sub-, stantially flush with the front bar of the rim of the dish.

2. A combined soap and sponge holder, Wire substantially flush With the front ends having a soap receptacle arranged at one or of the L-shaped members first named, subboth of the sides of the sponge holder and stantially as hereinbefore specified. composed of L-shaped Wire members form- JOHN S. FREY. ing the bottom and back of said receptacle, Witnesses: smaller L-shaped Wire members at the sides ROBERT MOILWAINE, of said receptacle, and a rim member of GUY W. SEBDAN. 

